Missouri Ordeal, 1862-1864: Diaries of Willard Hall Mendenhall

iv, 219 pp. "Civil War diaries of Willard Hall Mendenhall (1832-1910), who lived in Lafayette County, Missouri, and married Mary Margaret Kavanaugh in 1858. Two sections of the book include the Mendenhall and Kavanaugh ancestral genealogy. The introductory essay by James W. Goodrich of the State Historical Society of Missouri, illustrates how the diaries " ... provide a revealing account of the ravages of civil war upon the population of west central Missouri. Regardless of allegiances to the Union or the Confederacy, Lafayette Countians and their neighbors faced harassment, confiscation, looting, burning and killing throughout the traumatic war years.""